You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.

People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.

I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

As long as you are dreaming, there is always a way out

He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it.

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.